Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica

Bangs, John Kendrick

• Publisher: pubOne.info
• Year: 2010
• eBook ISBN: 9782819946335
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

pubOne.info present you this new edition. Napoleon's father, Charles Bonaparte, was the honored progenitor of thirteen children, of whom the man who subsequently became the Emperor of the French, by some curious provision of fate, was the second. That the infant Napoleon should have followed rather than led the procession is so foreign to the nature of the man that many worthy persons unfamiliar with the true facts of history have believed that Joseph was a purely apocryphal infant, or, as some have suggested, merely an adopted child; but that Napoleon did upon this occasion content himself with second place is an incontrovertible fact. Nor is it entirely unaccountable. It is hardly to be supposed that a true military genius, such as Napoleon is universally conceded to have been, would plunge into the midst of a great battle without first having acquainted himself with the possibilities of the future. A reconnoitre of the field of action is the first duty of a successful commander; and hence it was that Napoleon, not wishing to rush wholly unprepared into the battle of life, assigned to his brother Joseph the arduous task of first entering into the world to see how the land lay

Table of contents

• CHAPTER I: CORSICA TO BRIENNE 1769-1779
• CHAPTER II: BRIENNE 1779-1785
• CHAPTER III: PARIS—VALENCE—LYONS—CORSICA 1785-1793
• CHAPTER IV: SARDINIA—TOULON—NICE—PARIS—BARRAS—JOSEPHINE 1793-1796
• CHAPTER V: ITALY—MILAN—VIENNA—VENICE 1796-1797
• CHAPTER VI: MONTEBELLO—PARIS—EGYPT 1797-1799
• CHAPTER VII: THE 19TH BRUMAIRE—CONSUL—THE TUILERIES—CAROLINE 1799
• CHAPTER VIII: THE ALPS—THE EMPIRE—THE CORONATION 1800-1804
• CHAPTER IX: THE RISE OF THE EMPIRE 1805-1810
• CHAPTER X: THE FALL OF THE EMPIRE 1810-1814
• CHAPTER XI: ELBA—THE RETURN—WATERLOO—ST. HELENA 1814-1815
• CHAPTER XII: 1815-1821-1895
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